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...about their own choices. To me, the central goal of the campaign is less about money and more about sparking debate about giving back to Harvard. I’ll provide the flint; you be the tinder. We’ll see if we reach the same conclusions.Some seniors wonder why Harvard needs another $10 after extracting $160,000 from their parents. In truth, however, these seniors’ qualms with the Gift campaign extend much deeper than money alone. Indeed, the first point that detractors and proponents of the Gift campaign determine is that the amount of money donated...
...MTV2 series Wonder Showzen begins with the theme song Kids' Show and a disclaimer that the show is not for kids. Which to believe? Consider the episode that portrays the letter N as a shame-filled, slutty drunk. ("Nobody Needs me!" she wails.) Or a segment in which a kid dressed as Pope John Paul II asks passersby whether he's going to hell...
Some of Showzen's humor is gross, some is politically pointed, and plenty is both (e.g., the cartoon "Global Politics in 30 Seconds," in which an animated U.S. urinates on Mexico, eats South America and humps the Middle East). The metajoke of Wonder Showzen is the dissonance between the message of kids' shows (that the world is friendly and understandable) and everything that is left out (hatred, injustice, random suffering). It's best captured in the man-on-the-street interviews, some done by a sweetly obnoxious blue puppet named Clarence, some by children. (One adorable little girl asks Wall...
...when the great storerooms of information were the university libraries are fading. The Internet has brought something approaching the totality of mankind's knowledge into the home, dismantling the barriers that limited people's choices about where and what they could study. In the new global village, Barratt-Peacock wonders, how long before a teenager in Christchurch, working from the computer in his bedroom, can attain a Harvard degree? "The idea of learning only in a large, formal institution with lots of other people . . . that is going to change." It's hard for outsiders to accept home education, which challenges...
...that they should be students of the world and not of select disciplines. A discipline is a perspective. It is meant to be a tool or lens, with which we decipher and study the world around us—it is not to be studied exclusively in itself. No wonder, Harvard’s long-time insistence on joint concentrations disallowed the pursuit of two fields in separation. What is important is not the fields in themselves but the perspective we gain from them (with multidisciplinary exposure simply meaning broader perspective), and so, under the old structure, joint concentrators were...